Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- As a truant.
- Truant; idle; inclined to shirk school or other duty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Like a truant; in idleness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb Like a
truant ; inidleness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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“With an unhappy — boy, sir — and idle and truantly disposed, as your lordship said,” answered the lad, looking up, and showing a countenance in which paleness and blushes succeeded each other, as fear and shamefacedness alternately had influence.
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Unfortunately for the case in hand, however, his thoughts wandered truantly back to New York and the mystery about the girl masquerading to the world as his wife.
A Husband by Proxy Jack Steele
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I often think, as I sit here in my green office in the woodland -- too often diverted from some serious literary business with the moon or the morning stars, or a red squirrel who is the familiar spirit of my wood-pile, or having my thoughts carried out to sea by the river which runs so freshly and so truantly, with so strong a current of temptation,
Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906
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"With an unhappy -- boy, sir -- and idle and truantly disposed, as your lordship said," answered the lad, looking up, and showing a countenance in which paleness and blushes succeeded each other, as fear and shamefacedness alternately had influence.
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
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